New York: The Dial Press, 1966. First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN and first wife, "For Paul and Katie Zimmerman, How it is in Texas - or, at least, how it was - With my Best wishes, Larry McMurtry." Light foxing to endpapers and page edges..... Item #54150 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1970). First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN and first wife, "For Paul & Katie Zimmerman, This extremely long & probably Burdensome Book, with good wishes--- it's almost longer Than marriage" and signed very legibly "Larry McMurtry." Page edges foxed otherwise very..... Item #54147 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First edition. Uncorrected proof in tall, narrow, yellow paperwraps as issued without paper spine. INSCRIBED, "For Sally & Charlie/ in friendship/ Larry McMurtry/ 6-9-70." McMurtry's long-standing policy against signing proofs makes this inscribed copy a rarity. Very good or better with few tiny staple..... Item #55071 More
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc., (1986). First edition. His second book, INSCRIBED by author on the half title page. "Lew - A little light reading for the happiest of birthdays. Bob Merkin 26 Aug 86." Fine in white dust jacket with a faint crease in front flap, spine..... Item #36366 More
New York: Atheneum, 1988. First edition. Scare hardcover issue. INSCRIBED BY MERWIN on half-title page, “Warm and good wishes to/ Jane and Walter Sullivan/ Sewanee/ 1/22/90/ William.” Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding members of The..... Item #72202 More
New York: Ballantine Books, (2009). First edition, second printing. INSCRIBED by author on title page, "To Britt, Glad we agree on the scary democracy. Cheers!" Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #53589 More
New York: Viking Press, 1930. First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having “the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint” (“The Blue Blues,” Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). INSCRIBED BY MILLEN on front endpaper, "Inscribed for/ my friend George Woodruff/ with sincere personal regards/ Gilmore..... Item #72040 More
Paris: Booster Publications, (1938). First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE PAINTER HILAIRE HILER, "To Hilaire Hiler -- monetary expert. Henry 10/38. Hiler, a fellow expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, tutored Miller in art. (He and Miller, together with William Saroyan, authored a 1945 book on the subject called WHY ABSTRACT?)..... Item #54161 More
![Item #53844 THE COLOSSUS OF MAROUSSI; [Inscribed, in facsimile dust jacket]. Henry Miller](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/53844.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1560716439)
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941). First edition. This non-pornographic piece must have disappointed publishers anticipating something more lurid from Miller after his "Tropic of Cancer" because ten New York publishers rejected it before Colt Press accepted it with an advance of only 100 USD [Shifreen & Jackson A26b]. INSCRIBED..... Item #53844 More
![Item #72115 PROPERTIES OF BLOOD: Stories; [Inscribed association copy]. William Mills](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72115.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1682453536)
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992. First edition. INSCRIBED on the title page, "For Walter & Jane/ With warmest personal regards,/ Bill." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature, and one of the founding members of The Fellowship of Southern Writers. His..... Item #72115 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition of the journalist and author's first novel. A WWII veteran returns to Sicily after the war to work as a geologist and search for his lost love. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "To Colonel [Egbert] White/ the finest commanding officer/ of..... Item #71889 More
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1935. First edition. INSCRIBED by author on front endpaper, "A. T. Chenhalls / by, with or from / Charles Morgan / The White House / East Claydon / January 22, 1938." Near fine copy in marbled boards with slight tanning on front inner joint and..... Item #50716 More
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1971. First edition thus: facsimile reprint. Association copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the publisher, "For my friend Allen J. Hubin, a/ belated token of a very pleasant/ visit here in Phialadelphia. This/ is the first copy, out of the first/ carton. With sincere admiration/ of a great..... Item #72085 More
![Item #72096 THE WOUND AND THE WEATHER; [Inscribed association copy]. Howard Moss](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72096.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675286650)
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1946). First edition. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED "WITH LOVE" TO COMPOSER DAVID DIAMOND. The National Book Award-winning poet's first book, written when he was just 24 years old, two short years before he was to become the longtime poetry editor at The New Yorker. INSCRIBED on..... Item #72096 More
London: Collins, (1985). First edition. INSCRIBED on title page, "To Philip --/ with all best wishes -/ Patricia Moyes/ Bouchercon, Baltimore, 1986." Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base of spine. Item #72105 More
No-place: Aralia Press, 1998. First edition. One of 160 unnumbered copies. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winning poet Anthony Hecht, "To Tony Hecht with fond wishes for a prolific New Year. Tim Murphy 28 December 1998." Also with a four-line inscription on an early page signed "Timothy of Shrewsbury." Fine in..... Item #54404 More
No-place: no-publisher, circa 1998. First edition. Would appear to have been self-published. INSCRIBED TO THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING POET LAUREATE, ANTHONY HECHT beneath the printed dedication (to the author's father), "and to Anthony Hecht/ from Timothy Murphy/ in the hard [above where he has crossed out "dark"] hours of 1999." No..... Item #72011 More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1986). First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To --- in appreciation - with best wishes always! Phyllis Naylor." Page edges slightly age darkened, otherwise fine in dust jacket with minor edge rubbing. Story set in the Chesapeake Bay area..... Item #36374 More
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., (1955). First edition. His third book of poetry. INSCRIBED "for Virginia Albee, with best wishes, Howard Nemerov 7 ii 55." The black paper-covered pictorial boards show wear on corners and spine ends; in dust jacket with matching wear and tape on verso at top..... Item #43007 More
(New York): New Directions, (1990). First edition. Simultaneous paperwraps issue. INSCRIBED BY NIMS on half-title page, “Snowy greetings but/ warm wishes to/ Jane & Walter/ -- John/ Jan. 14, ’91.” Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding..... Item #72203 More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1985). First edition. The title story was the basis for the TV movie of the same name. INSCRIBED BY NORRIS on front endpaper, "For Jane and Walter/ Cordially/ Helen Norris." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, and authority on Southern..... Item #72205 More
Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, (1985). First edition. Winner of the 1986 Christian Book Award's Gold Medallion for Fiction. INSCRIBED BY NORRIS on front endpaper, "For Jane and Walter/ with best wishes/ Helen Norris." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, and authority on Southern literature..... Item #72204 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1960). First edition. A historical novel based in Egypt by the first woman to be named Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and SFWA [Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America] Grand Master and to be inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. INSCRIBED..... Item #55112 More
New York: Mysterious Press, (1993). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "To . . . 'There is nothing [underlined] but reality!' Abigail Padgett/ 7 May, 1994." Fine with small remainder mark on bottom page edges; in a bright dust jacket. Item #34341 More
(New York): Mysterious Press, (1994). First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "To . . . "Grasp for it! Abigail Padgett May, 1994." Fine in dust jacket. Item #34342 More